Marcia Brown
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Marcia Joan Brown (born July 13, 1918 in Rochester, New York) is an American children's author and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She is the only three time winner of the Caldecott Medal, the winner of 1977 Regina Medal, a six-time recipent of the Caldecott Honor, and the winner of the 1992 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal. Many of her titles have been produced in other languages, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish and Xhosa-Bantu.
She enrrolled in the New York State College for Teachers, the University at Albany's predecessor. Marcia taught at Cornwall High School in New York City, where she began her writing career with the publication of The Little Carousel in 1946.
As she grew up during the Depression, she thought about becoming a doctor. But she decided to take up teaching and, later, writing books.
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- Stone Soup
- The Little Carousel
- Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Shadow
- Bun: A Tale From Russia
- Once a Mouse
- Walk With Your Eyes
- Dick Whittington and His Cat
- Touch Will Tell
- Henry Fisherman
- Listen to a Shape
- Skipper John's Cook
- Lotus Seeds
- Puss in Boots
- All Butterflies
- The Steadfast Tin Solider
- Of Swans, Sugarplums, and Satin Slippers
- The Wild Swans
- How the Ostrich Got a Long Neck
- Anansi, the Spider Man
- Backbone of the King
- How, Hippo
